[19] Lit. "of these" {deiktikos}, i.e. pointing to the various
beauties of the scenery.

[20] Reading {to kallos}.

[21] The Persian "Sun-God." See "Cyrop." VII. v. 53; Strab. xv. 3. 13.

[22] Or, "fortunate."

[23] Or, "you are a good man, and thereby fortunate."



V

All this I relate to you (continued Socrates) to show you that quite
high and mighty[1] people find it hard to hold aloof from
agrictulture, devotion to which art would seem to be thrice blest,
combining as it does a certain sense of luxury with the satisfaction
of an improved estate, and such a training of physical energies as
shall fit a man to play a free man's part.[2] Earth, in the first
place, freely offers to those that labour all things necessary to the
life of man; and, as if that were not enough, makes further
contribution of a thousand luxuries.[3] It is she who supplies with
sweetest scent and fairest show all things wherewith to adorn the
altars and statues of the gods, or deck man's person. It is to her we
owe our many delicacies of flesh or fowl or vegetable growth;[4] since
with the tillage of the soil is closely linked the art of breeding
sheep and cattle, whereby we mortals may offer sacrifices well